I have two hard drives. I reformatted my SSD C:\ and reloaded Windows 7 and that is done and fine. Unfortunately, Explorer is not picking up my second hard drive! I went to Device Manager and it is recognizing my second hard drive.

Can you advise what I need to do to get Explorer to see my second hard drive?

Why is device manager recognizing the second hard drive but not in Explorer? I have all my backups like favorites and cookies on the second hard drive, so I need to get into that badly!!

1.Click on the Start button and then choose Control Panel.
2.Click on the System and Security link.
3.In the System and Security window, click on the Administrative Tools heading located near the bottom of the window.
4.In the Administrative Tools window, double-click on the Computer Management icon.
5.When Computer Management opens, click on Disk Management on the left side of the window, located under Storage.

check if see all you drives

you need to let disk manager allow it seen (status of drive)

best to have only the wanted drive to format hooked to computer, then no mistake formatting

if you can maybe how a screen how of the computer management because normally you should be able to high light ( on the lower part) in the computer management right click and it will show you options like changing the disk name or drive letter